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Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional — George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration. — Sometimes the Constitution's text …
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Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment — Trump's order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution. — By The Editorial Board — President Trump really, really wants to make the midterm election about immigration, and for a while it looked like he had an edge due to Democratic excess.
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Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Raw Story
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In Campaign's Homestretch, Trump Tosses Out Ideas to See What Sticks
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KRTV-TV, ABC News, Raw Story, New Republic, Breitbart, Front Page Magazine and Reason
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
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Splinter, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Wire, Raw Story, Townhall, Associated Press, Louder With Crowder and KRON, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
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National Journal
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POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi: Democrats are going to win the House
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi: Democrats are going to win the House
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CNN, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Vox, New York Times and Politico
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A Supreme Marriage Proposal — Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious. So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.
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Talking Points Memo
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Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams — Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. — The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.
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Political Wire, Jezebel, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Associated Press, The Hill and The Guardian
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Georgia Domestic Workers Mobilize For Stacey Abrams In The Birthplace Of Their Movement — Long erased from the popular narrative of the civil rights and labor movements, household workers are at the heart of a historic bid for governor. — ATLANTA Gwinnett County, Georgia …
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BuzzFeed News
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Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President? — Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudolph Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-chair Joseph R. Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.
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Raw Story, Hill Reporter and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump — and Democrats are culpable too — After a deranged Democrat living in his van nearly assassinated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) firing more than 70 rounds at House Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The midterms' split decision
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Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka — “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?” — Sherman Smith Twitter — I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …
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The Big Lead
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Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation — “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel. — Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …
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Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
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The Resurgent, Mediaite, Hill Reporter, The Gateway Pundit and Talking Points Memo
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New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied — The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …
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The Capitolist, Florida Politics, NTK Network and The Week
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Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement — Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003. — The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …
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Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants — When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.
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New York Post, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, CBS Boston, Daily Mail, Boston Magazine, AOL, The Daily Beast and The Week
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WATCH: Trump's motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets — On Tuesday, despite many people's wishes, President Donald Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the lives lost in the synagogue massacre.
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Daily Kos and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit
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Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion — By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success. After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …
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New York Post, The Daily Caller, Sputnik International, National Review and New York Times
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Senior Saudi Prince Returns to Kingdom as Royals Confront Khashoggi Crisis — LONDON — A senior member of the Saudi royal family, who had feared returning to the kingdom, flew back to Riyadh from London on Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
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ABC News
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Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths — NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week. — The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …
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Trump is alienating Muslim voters. Can Democrats take advantage? — When Michael Avenatti got up to speak Sunday night at a fundraiser for a Muslim American activist group in Northern Virginia, he knew the crowd might be surprised to see him. He also knew his anti-Trump, anti-racism …
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New York Times
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Kellyanne Conway removes White House title from Twitter bio — Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has removed her White House title from her Twitter bio, leaving her profile blank. — It's uncertain why the title was removed from Conway's account, and the White House declined …
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Record turnout? Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote. — That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey. — About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …
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Political Wire
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Standing ‘Against White Supremacy,’ G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King — WASHINGTON — As Pittsburgh began burying the victims of Saturday's synagogue massacre, the head of the House Republican campaign arm all but jettisoned Representative Steve King of Iowa from the House Republican Conference …
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Vanity Fair, Vox, HuffPost and Roll Call
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Sen. Joe Donnelly says he has black and Indian American staffers, ‘but’ they're terrific — Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), a conservative Democrat in one of the tightest reelection battles in the country, made a cringeworthy and puzzling statement about some minorities on his staff during a debate Tuesday night.
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Breitbart, twitchy.com and Conservative News Today
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Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn — Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response … The guns used in the synagogue attack were purchased legally by the suspect, an investigation found. — WHITEY BULGER — Whitey Bulger, Boston Mobster and Informant, Is Dead at 89 … A Mobster of Many Enemies, Bulger May Have Been Killed in a Hit
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How an internet meme became a Trump campaign slogan — It used to take a fancy degree and political connections to become a presidential speechwriter. In the era of President Donald Trump, all you need is a tweet. — On a Thursday morning earlier this month, a Twitter user in Georgia …
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The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist — Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect — New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist. — A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …
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New York Times and The Week
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Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data — A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian. — You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …
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Raw Story
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GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare — Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) complained in a recent interview that she is getting her “ass kicked” because she voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
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Washington Post and Arizona Republic
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Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used' — Breaks From Politics — 4:15 PM PT — Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting out of politics altogether. — As for being “used” ... he says he was specifically referencing Blexit, and that's it.
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The Business of Internet Outrage — A look at the rise and fall of a right-wing website and the imprint it left on our politics.